Kitchen remodel & wiring

[Ron]

Will be redoing the kitchen completely. Kitchen is approx 50 feet at
opposite corner of house. Need to run several 20 amp lines, lighting
lines, dishwasher , refrig , electric oven.

Instead of running all these lines to the service panel is a subpanel
in the basebent below the kitchen the better or proper way to go. Live
in westchester county New York.

Appreciate any help, Thanks

 

[Anthony]

[email protected] (Greg) wrote in

A sub panel does solve the problem of a full main panel but for what
you are talking about there is very little other advantage. If I had
the slots I would just home run back to the main panel.

I'll bet if you figure the cost of the 12-2 for the homeruns to the box, vs
the cost of the wire required to carry the full load in the subpanel, you
will be even money or money ahead to just do the homeruns out of 12-2.
Yea, there is more of them, but 12-2 is cheap ($30/250 ft) and stove cable
is not bad. 1/0 (x3 + panel costs) is not.


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[SQLit]

| A sub panel does solve the problem of a full main panel but for what you are
| talking about there is very little other advantage. If I had the slots I would
| just home run back to the main panel.

I've been working on the design of a future house. I've got about 5
active floor plans I'm still working on. A couple weeks ago I did a
rough circuit count on one of the floor plans and came up with 90.
Obviously I do need at least 3 panels (or 2 if I can trim the circuit
count down to 80). At this point, would you think it better to have
all the panels at one place and run all the wires down to it, or would
it be better to split things into subpanels?

Gees is this residence 25000 square feet?

Are you using the calculations per the NEC for LOAD calculations or are you
just having a lot of single pole breakers feeding separate loads? If you
using separate loads as separate breakers I suggest that you consider some
load sharing circuits. Your going to pay a bunch for the privilege of what
your proposing to do. I tried to install a 600 amp 3 phase service on a
house once. The city would only allow a 500 amp service. Saying that there
was no reason for a house to have a 600 amp service. There was a guest
house 3 full kitchens 2 steam rooms, and my favorite 60 tons of a/c on the
garage ( 8 double bays ). The whole thing calculated at less than 400 amps.
I got a deal on the 600 so I put that in.